Mechanical carafe

ABSTRACT

An expanded foam polystyrene carafe including a body having a pouring spout. A lid is frictionally seated for rotation within the open end of the body and has a nose formed with a groove on the underside thereof. The groove provides a pouring passage when the lid nose is aligned with the pitcher pouring spout. Rotation of the lid so that the lid nose and pouring spout are angularly displaced is operative to seal or close the pouring spout.

' llnited States Patent v 13599346 [72] Inventor gpittilrieMkftephenson5 g -a Cit d 7' ns. [2 l 1 pp No 849 UNITED STATES PATENTS Filed g 131969 2,805,561 9/1957 Emmert et ai. 222/547 X p w g 7' 3,362,590 1/1968Martin 222/548 X 73' Amgmg Mpmd Corpomwm 3,375,954 4/1968 Honkanen et a]220/97 C Chlclgo, Ill. Primary Examiner Robert B. Reeves AssistantExaminer-John P. Shannon, Jr. Attorney-Patherbridge, ONeill & LindgrenABSTRACT: An expanded foam polystyrene carafe including a body having apouring spout. A lid is frictionally seated for [54] .MECFIANICALrotation within the open end of the body and has a nose 4 clalmssDrawing Flgs' formed with a groove on the underside thereof. The groove[52] US. Cl..... 222/553 provides a pouring passage when the lid nose isaligned with [51] Int. Cl u B67d 3/00 the pitcher pouring spout.Rotation of the lid so that the lid [50] Field of Search 222/548, noseand pouring spout are angularly displaced is operative to 143, 547, 569,545, 549-553; 220/97 C seal or close the pouring spout.

1. A carafe comprising a one-piece molded body of generally circularcross sections and made from an expanded foam polystyrene, said bodyhaving an open end, a pouring spout formed in said body and terminatingat said upper end, a lid including a disk of substantially the samediameter as said upper end of said body and turnably seated in said openend, said disk including a nose adapted to overlie said pouring spout, agroove formed on the underside of said nose and providing a fluiddischarge passage through said pouring spout when said nose is alignedtherewith and being closed off from communication with said pouringspout when said nose is angularly displaced from alignment with saidpouring spout thereby to seal said carafe, said disk includes adownwardly depending annular flange which is snugly received within saidopening, said annular flange is formed with an open-ended slot alignedwith said groove in said nose, said open-ended slot being verticallyspaced from said groove so that a portion of said annular flange dependsinto said body.
 2. The invention as defined in claim 1 wherein said bodyincludes an upper section and a lower section, said upper and lowersections being of different diameters at the juncture thereof to providean interior stacking rim and an exterior stacking rim.
 3. The inventionas defined in claim 2, wherein the exterior of the upper section andlower section of said body is formed respectively with a plurality ofhorizontal bands, said bands gradually decreasing in diameter from thetop to the bottom of said body.
 4. The invention as defined in claim 2,wherein a handle is formed integral with said upper section, said handlebeing of substantially T-shaped cross section and said stem of said Textends radially from said body.